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Title: Using Legos blocks for fairing repair
Post by: aviationfred on December 05, 2013, 10:54:05 AM
This is an interseting video on how to make your own ABS repair paste from a childrens toy and Acetone to fix cracks.

Repair Your Motorcycle Skins Using Legos (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM4CkyhKyHo#ws)

Fred
Title: Re: Using Legos blocks for fairing repair
Post by: Joe Sull on December 05, 2013, 02:42:15 PM
That looks like it works slick. I kind thought legos were poly or nylon though. I was sanding my fairing and had to go deep to get some scratches out. My plastic is white. Is it ABS? I think I'd use a plastic that I know to be the same thing as my fairing. I would sand and feather back at least an 1" in each side and go thin right at the crack.
Title: Re: Using Legos blocks for fairing repair
Post by: FJmonkey on December 05, 2013, 03:09:09 PM
Quote from: Joe Sull on December 05, 2013, 02:42:15 PM
That looks like it works slick. I kind thought legos were poly or nylon though. I was sanding my fairing and had to go deep to get some scratches out. My plastic is white. Is it ABS? I think I'd use a plastic that I know to be the same thing as my fairing. I would sand and feather back at least an 1" in each side and go thin right at the crack.

The FJ plastics are ABS, same as Legos. The color does not tell you what kind of plastic it is, refer back to the Legos.
Title: Re: Using Legos blocks for fairing repair
Post by: movenon on December 05, 2013, 06:04:46 PM
Quote from: FJmonkey on December 05, 2013, 03:09:09 PM
Quote from: Joe Sull on December 05, 2013, 02:42:15 PM
That looks like it works slick. I kind thought legos were poly or nylon though. I was sanding my fairing and had to go deep to get some scratches out. My plastic is white. Is it ABS? I think I'd use a plastic that I know to be the same thing as my fairing. I would sand and feather back at least an 1" in each side and go thin right at the crack.

The FJ plastics are ABS, same as Legos. The color does not tell you what kind of plastic it is, refer back to the Legos.

Well there you go..... Send Mark some red and white Lego's for Christmas  (if you mixed them then you would have pink...) :rofl2: :bye:
George